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ViVa: The Virtual Vascular Project

Gassan Abdoulaev, Sandro Cadeddu, Giovanni Delussu, Marco Donizelli, Luca Formaggia, Andrea Giachetti, Enrico Gobbetti, Andrea Leone, Cristina Manzi, Piero Pili, Alan Scheinine, Massimiliano Tuveri, Alberto Varone, Alessandro Veneziani, Gianluigi Zanetti, and Antonio Zorcolo

December 1998

Abstract

The aim of the ViVa project is to develop tools for the modern hemodynamicist and cardiovascular surgeon to study and interpret the constantly increasing amount of information being produced by non-invasive imaging equipment. In particular, we are developing a system that will be able to process and visualize 3D medical data, to reconstruct the geometry of arteries of specific patients and to simulate blood flow in them. The initial applications of the system will be for clinical research and training purposes. In a later stage we will explore the application of the system to surgical planning. ViVa is based on an integrated set of tools, each dedicated to a specific aspect of the data processing and simulation pipeline: image processing and segmentation; real-time 3D volume visualization; 3D geometry reconstruction; 3D mesh generation; blood flow simulation and visualization

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Gassan Abdoulaev, Sandro Cadeddu, Giovanni Delussu, Marco Donizelli, Luca Formaggia, Andrea Giachetti, Enrico Gobbetti, Andrea Leone, Cristina Manzi, Piero Pili, Alan Scheinine, Massimiliano Tuveri, Alberto Varone, Alessandro Veneziani, Gianluigi Zanetti, and Antonio Zorcolo. ViVa: The Virtual Vascular Project. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 22(4): 268-274, December 1998.

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@Article{Abdoulaev:1998:VVV,
    author = {Gassan Abdoulaev and Sandro Cadeddu and Giovanni Delussu and Marco Donizelli and Luca Formaggia and Andrea Giachetti and Enrico Gobbetti and Andrea Leone and Cristina Manzi and Piero Pili and Alan Scheinine and Massimiliano Tuveri and Alberto Varone and Alessandro Veneziani and Gianluigi Zanetti and Antonio Zorcolo},
    title = {{ViVa}: The Virtual Vascular Project},
    journal = {IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine},
    volume = {22},
    number = {4},
    pages = {268--274},
    publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
    month = {December},
    year = {1998},
    abstract = {The aim of the {ViVa} project is to develop tools for the modern hemodynamicist and cardiovascular surgeon to study and interpret the constantly increasing amount of information being produced by non--invasive imaging equipment. In particular, we are developing a system that will be able to process and visualize {3D} medical data, to reconstruct the geometry of arteries of specific patients and to simulate blood flow in them. The initial applications of the system will be for clinical research and training purposes. In a later stage we will explore the application of the system to surgical planning. {ViVa} is based on an integrated set of tools, each dedicated to a specific aspect of the data processing and simulation pipeline: image processing and segmentation; real-time {3D} volume visualization; {3D} geometry reconstruction; {3D} mesh generation; blood flow simulation and visualization},
    url = {http://vic.crs4.it/vic/cgi-bin/bib-page.cgi?id='Abdoulaev:1998:VVV'},
}